Fortnite's Playground Mode Returns Wednesday

Players will now be able to select their own teams

By Nick Santangelo

Fortnite's Playground mode is returning on Wednesday as part of the 5.10 patch, Epic Games announced today. This new version of Fortnite will include team select options, additional loot, and the ability to ride all-terrain karts.

Playground mode was designed to give players a place to test out weapons, practice their skills in a group of four, and try building new structures or even games within the game. Unfortunately, Epic had to take Playground offline just hours after its June 27 release due to a rash of errors and long wait times to get into games. Playground made a triumphant return earlier this month, but not for good.

Just days after Playground's return, Epic announced that it would again be going offline starting on July 12. Epic also said at the time that Playground would hopefully get a number of new features in addition to the ones it announced today:

1v1s and 2v2s

Aim assist for controllers

Editing other player’s structures

Traps affecting teammates/enemies correctly

Highlighting teammates on the map

Damaging enemies with your pickaxe

It's not clear at this time whether or not those features are still part of the planned Playground return. But the mode will return Wednesday, just one day after the 5.1 patch drops in celebration of Fortnite's one-year anniversary.

Nick Santangelo is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He loves video games and sports, but not sports video games. Follow him on Twitter.